A Principal Component Analysis of the "U.S. News & World Report" Tier Rankings of Colleges and Universities.

By T. Webster. 2001

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Changing Facets of Korean Higher Education: Market Competition and the Role of the State (2006, unknown): “Ehrenberg and Hurst (1998) use several criteria, but Webster (2001) identifies that the most significant ranking criterion is the average SAT score of enrolled students.”
Institutional Selectivity and Good Practices in Undergraduate Education: How Strong is the Link? (2006, methodology): “In a creative approach employing principal component analysis, Webster (2001) found that, although the average SAT (or ACT equivalent) score of enrolled students constituted only 6% of an institution’s overall USNWR quality score, it was by far the criterion that most clearly determined an institu”
Comparing university rankings (2010, methodology): “As an example, Webster (2001) analyzed an earlier ranking published by the US News and World Report, and showed that the actual weights assigned to the different criteria are not as published, because of the interdependence of the ranking parameters.”
The Use of Discrete Data in PCA: Theory, Simulations, and Applications to Socioeconomic Indices (2004, methodology): “The views represented in the paper are those of the authors, and do not reflect the views of Carolina Population Center or US Agency for International Development.”
Socioeconomic Status Measurement with Discrete Proxy Variables (2009, methodology): “…has been applied to the studies of cointegration and spatial convergence (Harris, 1997; Drakos, 2002), development (Caudill et al., 2000), panel data (Bai, 1993; Reichlin, 2002), forecasting (Stock and Watson, 2002), simultaneous equations (Choi, 2002) and economics of education (Webster, 2001).”
The Test-Optional Movement at America’s Selective Liberal Arts Colleges (2015, background): “…to the magazine’s ranking formula (7.5% to 8.125% in recent years), average institutional SAT/ACT score is the largest predictor of U.S. News rank (Webster, 2001), and its influence may be subsumed within other measures that U.S. News uses to determine an institution’s rank score, such as…”